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Since the late 80's that is how I've seen it done.
We had three divisions.
Open
Advanced Ametuer
Ameteur
Then Masters and women came along.
Then Jr.'s.
Then all sorts of divisions.
Would the word ameteur after the word advanced be better.

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Maybe this somewhat explains why people with ratings <920 are playing advanced instead of intermediate? Just a thought.

How would this explain that?
It's clearly stated what division to play by your ranking.
Most the people I know that are playing a division above their skill level are trying to learn more from better players.
Playing their home course.
Tired of plastic.

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How would this explain that?
It's clearly stated what division to play by your ranking.
Most the people I know that are playing a division above their skill level are trying to learn more from better players.
Playing their home course.
Tired of plastic.

Maybe it's a pride or ego thing? "At least if I play advanced I won't be called an amateur". Some of it has to do with the wording we use. "Advanced" sounds like someone who isn't a complete noob when actuality playing and competing in advanced takes real skills and time on the course. Intermediate sounds like noobs but there a lot of players in that division that are actually quite good and been playing a long time.

I suppose we're still old school down south here because we still go with:
Pro
Advanced
Amateur
I haven't seen a good enough reason to change, because it keeps it simple for our gigs.

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Isn't this confusing? These titles imply that Advanced is not an Amateur division.

Although you may find it confusing, we've actually had little to no problem for the last 20 years or so, as most peeps figure it out rather quickly where they should play.
Maybe they could call it semi-pro instead of advanced.
What's confusing for me is when we run our PDGA gigs and have to try and remember all those abbreviations.

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The post that Magilla made is accurate but why all the divisions PDGA if you don't offer them at Worlds? Advanced divisions are the only trophies handed out at PDGA Worlds events besides Junior!

This is obviously a post made for the entry fee cost break down for an event. Sure Rec could have been lumped into Am but perhaps this is an event that has not offered Rec in the past or maybe the TD was asked about it and wanted to make it clear that Rec was offered. Clearly Junior is separated out due to a cost difference.

My personal opinion is intermediate is a poor choice for a name for a division and there is no good substitute so the PDGA should just use the divisional codes for all am divisions along with the rating break points instead.

I agree with Yose on the player capability break downs, unless there are entry fee differences for the other am divisions to encourage new players to come out and play at a cheaper cost.

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Not sure why there's such confusion. The biggest Amateur divisions are formally: Advanced Am, Intermediate Am, Recreational Am and Novice Am. That's no different from the "confusion" when you say you play Master. You don't know if that's Master Pro or Advanced Master Am without the full name. When you are older and say you play Pro, you still don't know if that could be Open Pro, Master Pro or Grandmaster Pro. In my case, it depends on the event.